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Date:  Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:53:07 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] MS XP and WPA KB Article 815485

Perhaps over the short term this is something of concern, but the 
industry sees WPA as yet another kludge until the newly ratified 802.11i 
spec works its way into the firmware. This is where we need to keep our 
attention focused. (See http://wifinetnews.com/archives/003931.html for 
some insight.)

That said, the Open1x project (www.open1x.org) has developed and 
released an open source supplicant (Xsupplicant, for *nix) for 802.1x 
authentication (802.1x is now a subset of 802.11i), and we can only hope 
that our friends in the *nix community will hack together something with 
usable sources so that we can effectively port it to OS/2. Meanwhile, 
legacy networks will continue for some time using 128-bit WEP and TKIP 
(WPA) methods, from what I can see.

On 07/25/2004 10:28 am, Neil Waldhauer thus wrote :

>On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:44:49 -0400 (EDT), "Stanley Sidlov"
><stanleys@cybernex.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Update in Windows XP  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=815485
>>
>>Should we be worried about this?
>>    
>>
>
>NetLabs is hosting the WLAN project. <http://wlan.netlabs.org/index.phtml>
>That's a good start. But we don't have an open-source wireless driver. I'm
>quite grateful to those who put some OS/2 wireless drivers out, but I'm
>skeptical about future support, unless new programmers can get help from the
>existing networking driver gurus.
>
>So, as a one word answer, yes, I think we should be worried.
>  
>

-- 
Lewis
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